Friends Annual and Focus 2025

Friends and Focus Exhibition (installation view), 2025, Campbelltown Arts Centre. Image credit: Silversalt Photography

Campbelltown Arts Centre proudly presents the ‘Friends Annual’ and ‘Focus’ exhibitions, an eclectic display of artworks by the Friends of Campbelltown Arts Centre. Featuring a range of styles and mediums, the ‘Friends Annual’ provides a unique opportunity to witness the rich artistic talent that the region has to offer. 

Complementary to the ‘Friends Annual’, the ‘Focus’ exhibition highlights the work of one artist or collective from the Friends of Campbelltown Arts Centre and provides an in-depth look at their practice. 

This year’s ‘Focus’ artist is Kelcie Bryant-Duguid. 

Based in the Macarthur region, Kelcie Bryant-Duguid works  across disciplines with a primary focus on encaustic mixed media and textiles including wearable art. 

This exhibition presents a number of wearable garments created between 2020 – 2024. Within this body of work, Bryant-Duguid portrays women as active participants in their own destiny who rely upon their skills, knowledge, and wisdom when navigating the world. She draws upon folktales and storybook narratives to reposition the ‘damsel in distress’ trope in a new light. In doing so, the ‘helpless beauty needing to be rescued’ is transformed, the female archetype is challenged, and her story retold.   

“I celebrate women and girls who come of age. With confidence, curiosity and agency, they draw upon the wisdom and experience of their peers and the generations of women who have gone before them, fearlessly embracing the future.” (Bryant-Duguid, 2025) 

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Campbelltown Arts Centre, 1 Art Gallery Road, 2560, View Map